Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
>
>
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > > The tendency for lengthy verb strongs is pretty pangermanic; "I
> will
> have
> > > been ..." is only too common in English.
> >
> > Which just goes back to the poverty of tenses in Proto-Germanic.  We
> had
> to
> > construct the missing ones by stringing verbs together. :)
>
> What's wrong with "I will have been", anyway?  How else can we express
> the
> Passive Future Perfect?
Well, you could be having an single ending for it. Fusionality, y'know. But I
was just pointing out that lengthy verb clusters aren't the domain only of
German and Swedish.

                                                                  Andreas